Hole In One actually operates multiple locations across the Bay area. Credit: Screengrab via Google Maps
Yelpers are at it again. The ratings website tapped its “elite” users for a new list of the “Top 50 donut shops in the US,” and just one Tampa Bay area shop made the cut.

Hole In One Donut—located at 14406 N Florida Ave. in the Lake Magdalene neighborhood of Hillsborough County—is one of just three Florida shops to make the list along with Donut King in Minneola and DG Doughnuts in Ocoee.

On the website, Hole In One, which actually operates locations in Tarpon Springs, Seffner Brandon and Plant City, has a 4.7 average and nearly 360 reviews. Recent takes laud the quick service, freshness of the rounds, and special orders.

Credit: Photo via Hole In One Donut 3/Facebook

Hole In One Donut

14406 N Florida Ave., Tampa, FL

In 2023, Hole In One Donuts also took home Reader’s and Critic’s picks selections in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Best of the Bay awards.

Elite Yelpers get a badge on the website and are supposed to be more trustworthy, but have not escaped scrutiny in the past.

The “elite” reviews aren’t the only spicy thing at Hole In One either. The menu also includes a “kolache jalepeño” featuring smoked sausage rolled in sweet bread with the pepper and cheese.

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This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...